Vehicle screen



' Oct. 1, 1929. D, L, HARRIS 1,730,204

VEHICLE S GREEN Filed Jan. 5, 1927 INVENTOR- WITNESS: v ATTORNEYPatented @ct. ll, I929 UH @ES Marat re DAN L. HARRIS, OF BLACKWELL,OKLAHOMA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-THIRD TO SEY- MOURE H. SHAWV'ER AND ONE-THIRDTO WALTER W. EVENS, BOTH OF BLACK- WELL, OKLAHOMA VEHICLE SCREENApplication filed January 5, 1927. Serial No: 159,210.

This invention relates to a screen for a window of a closed type ofmotor vehicle, the general object of the invention being 'to provide ascreen carrying frame which is designed to be placed in the compartmentof the sash or window glass of the vehicle, with manually operated meansfor raising and lowering the frame.

This invention also consists in certain other features of constructionand in the combination and arrangement of the several parts,

to be hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanyingdrawings and specifically pointed out in the appended claim. Indescribing my invention in detail, reference will be had to theaccompanying drawings wherein like characters denote like orcorresponding parts throughout the several views, and in which:-

Figure 1 is a fragmentary view of a portion of the interior of anautomobile, showing the invention in use, parts being broken away.

Figure 2 is a section on line 22 of Figure 1. c

Figure 3 is a section on line 3-.3 of Figure 1.

Figure 4 is a view of the sprocket shaft and its casing for operatingthe screen.

As shown in these views, I provide a frame 4 which carries a screen 5,said frame being placed in the compartment 6 formed in the lower part ofa door or body of a vehicle for accommodating the sash or glass 7. Thisframe is slidably mounted so that it can be raised the same as the glass7 is raised to close the window opening, as shown in Figure 1. Anelongated casing8 is fastened to the inner face of the door or bodyadjacent the lower edge of the window opening and a horizontal shaft 9is journaled in said casing.

At each end of this .shaft is fastened a sprocket wheel 10, the teeth ofwhich are adapted to engage a row of holes 11 formed in each side of theframe 4 so that as the shaft is rotated, the frame will be raised orlowered. A worm gear 11 is fastened to the central part .of the shaftand a stub shaft 12 is journaled in an enlargement 8 at the center ofthe casing and carries a worm 13 1 which meshes with the gear 11. Theouter end of the shaft 12 projects from the enlargement and has a crankhandle 14 fastened thereto.

. Thus it will be seen that the crank handle 15 arranged so that it canbe easily grasped by a person occupying'a seat in the vehicle so thatthis person can rotate the shaft which Wlll in turn rotate the shaft 9and through the sprockets and the rows of holes 11, will raise or lowerthe screen frame to open or close the window.

It is thought from the foregoing description that the advantages andnovel features of my invention will be readily apparent.

I desire it to be understood that I may make changes in the constructionand in the combination and arrangement of the several parts, providedthat such changes fall within the scope of the appended claim.

What I claim is In combination with a door having a window opening inits upper part and a compartment in its lower part, an elongated casingattached to one face of the door below the window opening therein andhaving end enlargements and a central enlargement, a shaft journaled inthe casing, a sprocket on each end of the shaft and arranged in the endenlargements of the casing, a transversely arranged shaft in the centralenlargement, a worm on said shaft, a worm gear on the central part ofthe first shaft meshing with the worm, a handle on the worm shaft and ascreen vertically movable-in the door and having a row of holes at eachside thereof for receiving the teeth of the sprockets whereby when thefirst shaft is turned by theworm means and the handle, the screen willbe moved from the compartment to cover the opening and vice versa by theteeth of the sprockets engaging the holes in the screen.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

DAN L. HARRIS.

